Speech and Language Therapy BCHC

One of our therapists attended a 2 day course led by Maggie Lee Huckabee on the neurology behind comprehensive dysphagia assessment and rehab last week. A very jam packed but incredibly informative couple of days! Learning doesn’t stop when you graduate ✏️📚🧠 #CPD

Friday is #DLDday, the day we raise awareness of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). And we REALLY need greater awareness.
Join us in supporting @radld.bsky.social to raise awareness of DLD.
Lots of resources at: radld.org/dld-awarenes...
#DevLangDis

You can’t see DLD. Awareness, understanding and support can make all the difference for people with #DevLangDis Make it your mission to find out more this #DLDday!! 💜💛💜

Really thought provoking study day on managing complex nutrition and swallowing difficulties @RHNuk. Useful to consider possible implications of recent legal cases / guidance on decision making. Naomi and I have lots to take back to the #AdultRehabilitationBCHC @bchc-slt.bsky.social team!

#DLDday is coming next week, so now is a good time to check out the Developmental Language Disorder starter pack. #DevLangDis

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Happy AHP day to our fellow SLTs, OTs, physiotherapists, psychologists, dietitians, paramedics, and all other AHPs who we work closely alongside to assess and manage service users holistically!! #AHPsDay2025 #teamwork #MDT ❤️❤️

With patients with dysphagia, we work closely with our Dietetic colleagues when re-introducing oral intake following a period of being NBM. Two of our SLTs observed a PEG removal last week by a nutrition nurse - this was done at the bedside! #MDTworking #AdultRehabilitationBCHC

Had some great teaching from our nutrition nurses this afternoon on the different types of feeding tubes. It was interesting to hear about how they're inserted, how they're removed and why one may be used instead of another. Also loved the models!!

Our amazing Terry has been achieving some functional goals recently and wanted to share! - handwriting a birthday card for his niece, and joining the OT gardening club! #AdultRehabilitationBCHC #MDT #Neurorehab

Our brilliant Children's Dysphagia team presented at the West Midlands Neurodisability Study Day to Paediatricians and other professionals about MDT management of eating, drinking and swallowing 💪 Well done team!

#ChildSLTBCHC #ChildBCHC

Last month was #AphasiaAwarenessMonth - thank you to our lovely Stroke rehab SLT's and Apprentice for your work involving patients (‪@rockingaphasia.com‬) and raising the profile to staff in the hospital of what we do! 🗣️ #AdultRehabilitationBCHC

Thank you for coming along with me on my day!👋😊

Before I head off home, I have my weekly supervision session with my Practice Educator. Here we discuss my health and wellbeing🌿, discuss anything I am having difficulty with and also discuss our achievements 🏆🎉 e.g. I officially submitted my last assignment📄🖊️!!

To finish off we have the SLT "case reviews" meeting. We discuss our caseloads, review long and short term goals, discuss current Dysphagia recommendations and Communication diagnoses and share any ideas on management of patients. 📈🤓

Then time for my own lunch, catching up with my peer Naz, and getting started on session planning for the next day. Tasks I've prepped:
Reading and comprehension 📖
Sequencing tasks 🔢➡️
Writing tasks✍️
#MySLTDay

Lunchtime was busy! I did a mealtime observation with a dysphagic patient - picking out a Level 5 Minced and Moist meal to assess them with and practiced using thickener to make a Level 2 Mildly Thick Orange Squash. Lots of IDDSI learning 🍲🥛🍽️

Now time for some admin...writing case notes and completing sections in a discharge report for one of the patients on my caseload ✍️📝

Our SLTA is setting up for communication group. I am joining to observe one of my clients to see their communication skills in a group setting 👥. Today’s activity is Guess the Occupation 💼

Come with me to our first patient in the sunny therapy garden 🌳- we have a few tasks lined up:🎯
Orientation Tasks 🧠
Using family pictures to assess yes/no ✔️🚫reliability and cognition
Match spoken word to object 👄
Match written word to object 📖

First up is the 8:30am morning huddle with the PT🧘‍💪, OT🧩🖐️and SLT🗣️👂 teams. We discuss the patients and how they were overnight. This helps me to prioritise patients accordingly. We also announce any groups we are running. Today we have communication group!

I like to start my day with a hot pot of porridge oats in the hospital cafeteria and plan my day 🍚🕒📅

Hi everyone! My name is Gaby. Come with me as I show you a typical day at Moseley Hall Hospital 🧠 💡👩‍ #MySLTDay

Let's hear from Gaby - a 3rd year Speech and Language Therapy Student for a #Dayinthelife on the Inpatient Neurological Rehabilitation Unit (INRU) 🧠

The #AdultRehabilitationBCHC teams based at Moseley Hall Hospital have been lucky to host 2 fab BCU students over the last few months. They have had experience on INRU, the Outpatient Brain Injury unit Moor green, the Stroke rehab wards and the Older adults wards! 🧠👅🗣️

Our teams include #AdultRehabilitationBCHC (across inpatient and community settings), #ChildBCHC and #LDBCHC!

Hi Bluesky! Welcome to the shared page for Speech and Language Therapy teams across Birmingham Community NHS Foundation Trust 👋